Arnold Friberg quotes
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“There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.”
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“It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.”
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“The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the greatness, the largeness of spirit. Who knows what he looked like? I'm painting a man who looks like he could actually do what Nephi did.”
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“I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.”
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“I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.”
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“What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.”
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“All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.”
-- Arnold FribergSource : Ted Schwarz, Arnold Friberg (1985). “Arnold Friberg: the passion of a modern master”
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Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”
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“I paint with my back to the world”
Source : Ned Rifkin, Agnes Martin, Edward Hirsch, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (2002). “Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond”, Hatje Cantz Pub
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“Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.”
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“There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.”
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Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.
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Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
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“The heart never knows the colour of the skin”
Source : 1974 My Heart Soars.
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“When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!”
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“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.”
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